"You
Don't Improve. You May Easily Get Worse. And You Finally End Your Practice Session
Frustrated And Dejected, Or Your Round, If You Are Playing, With A Shameful Score!!

Fortunately, there is a cure for all this,
a cure that is almost miraculous. The magic move that puts you on the right track
immediately is simply this:

Start the backswing with an early
backward wrist break!

Of course this sounds too simple to
be true. It violates every rule you ever heard about starting the swing. Your
first reaction is that I may have gone completely off my rocker. But it is true
- and unless your swing is now everything that you want it to be, you will find
out how and why this magic move is made.

The wrist break
itself is simple enough, actually, though if you have been breaking in the conventional
way you may need a little time to convince yourself of what is to be done and
to make yourself do it.

Since the backward break is the first
magic move, let's be absolutely certain you understand what it is.

First,
hold your right hand in front of you, fingers together and extended, thumb up
and the palm squarely facing the left. From that position bend the hand to the
right, trying to make the fingers come back toward the outside of the wrist. You
can't get them anywhere near the wrist, of course, but a person with supple wrists
can bend the hand back until hand and wrist form a right angle.

This
motion of the hand, straight back, is the backward wrist break.

The
way the right hand should move from the wrist in the early backward break-straight
back toward the outside of the forearm, with no turning or rolling.

The standard wrist break is quite different.
Hold your hand again as you held it before. Now, instead of
bending it backward, bend it up, so that the thumb comes toward
you. That is the orthodox, accepted wrist break. Forget it.
You will no longer need it.

To
make the backward wrist break we merely push the heel of the right hand down against
the big knuckle of the left thumb. This is a downward pressure of the heel on
the thumb. When it is done, without moving the hands otherwise, the right hand
breaks backward at the wrist and the left hand breaks forward or inward, the back
of the left hand going under and facing, in a general way, toward the ground.

How
the backward break is made, with the heel of the right hand pressing down on the
knuckle of the left thumb. The back of the left hand begins to turn down and under.

How
not to make the break. Wrists and hands have rolled, the back of the left
hand has turned upward. The right hand is rolling too, instead of bending straight
back.

At this point the club will have come back slightly
inside the projected line of flight but the club face will not have opened. The
face will be at about a 45-degree angle with the ground and, as you stand there,
you will not be able to see any of it.

How
the backward break looks from the side. Note the bend in the left wrist as the
back of the hand turns down, and the position of the right wrist. Notice also
that the face of the club has not opened.

We have not put
this into the actual swing yet, remember. We are still working on the mechanics
of the wrist break. It is just possible that at this fundamental stage you will
refuse to believe that you can hit the ball with such a break. So make this test....

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